new yarn

I bought new yarn on Tuesday. We had a Guild meeting, and we hold our meetings, as you know, in a wool shop. Very handy. However, people were conspiring to keep me from buying, (cough*Nancy*cough), by pulling me away from wool and making me discuss things. I thwarted her, however, and managed to drop some cash in exchange for this: Cadenza sock yarn (80% superwash merino, 20% tussah silk). Yum. (And the red is a much richer, deeper, red, not the pink that appears above. The green is pretty close to true.) There may have also been this in my bag: Misti Alpaca sock yarn. Yes, alpaca sock yarn. Yumminess in a skein. 50% baby alpaca, 30% merino, 10% silk, 10% nylon.

As much as all this is sock yarn, I think it will become woven scarves. The red is perfect for my friend Jennifer, the green, as much as I want to keep it, will go with my Mom's alpaca winter coat, and the alpaca sock, well, as much as my SIL would love it, I may have a tough time giving it away. We'll see.

I may also be planning on going back to the store (tonight!) and buying more alpaca sock - My FIL is lobbying for a super soft sock for Christmas. I may have found the perfect one. And there is a black, grey, cream handpainted colourway - perfect for the guy that only wears black, brown, grey, blue, and maybe dark green. Maybe. And I know my MIL will hand wash them - she always does.

I had a little issue with the woven black silk and bamboo scarf. It seems the 20" width I was working on was eating up the yarn faster than I wanted. So I unwove (de-wove??) what I had done, cut some of the warp threads to make it close to 12-14" and started again. I think this will be better, since I want it at least 5 feet long.